[fwd] [EDRi-members] DRM Hearing an outrage (from: ad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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From: Andreas Dietl <ad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:37:38 +0200
Subject: [EDRi-members] DRM Hearing an outrage
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Sorry for crossposting this on the edri-members and edri-ip lists, but
this concerns as well edri as an organisation as possibly those people
on the edri-ip list who are not EDRi members.
I went to the Commission Contact Committee Consultation on DRM
yesterday, and the way it went was scandalous: They put the most
interesting an most important topic - "Developments in case law as well
as relevant economic, social or cultural or technological developments"
- on the agenda as the very last point, and then they simply dropped
this issue, because they had not enforced their own speaking time
limitations before that. this led to the majority of civil society /
user / consumer advocates present, who had all enlisted for this one
topic, not speaking at all.
All the same the day was filled with lengthy statements, mainly by
industry lobbyists, who gave 15-minute-long Powerpoint presentations on
the advantages of their companies' DRM solutions, as well as with
collecting societies' lawyers praising their countries approach to
renumeration and levies as being the most balanced, democratic,
artist-friendly and unbureaucratic. There were only about five people
representing people - as opposed to companies, states and state agencies
- in the room, and only two of us - Cornelia Kutterer of BEUC and I -
got to speak. Both Cornelia and I and a couple of others had put their
names on the list for the "case law / economic / social / cultural /
technological" slot, but none of us got to speak on this issue.
I will prepare a draft press release along the lines of "DRM: Commission
not interested in Civil Society's position", and would suggest to go
much more public on the DRM issue within the next months, to organise
street rallys when hearings take place, to urge people to get listed
when hearings and workshop will take place (the next such event already
being mid-November, if I am not mistaken).
Please tell me what you think.
BTW: Today is another Day of Contact Committee Hearings, but today it
will be industry, collecting societies, member states' representatives
and Commission staff only, without any civil society advocates allowed.
it was already quite hard for us to get into yesterday's meeting.
Andreas
Programme of the Consultation:
www.edri.org/files/internal/EC_DRM_041012.pdf (±350 kB)
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